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On alert for state-sponsored hacking

The involvement of states in nefarious activities, from stealing intellectual property to identifying vulnerabilities on critical infrastructure – which may be useful to exploit in a future conflict – and influencing elections – is certainly exercising people's minds right now. Of course, these sorts of state-directed actions are nothing new. The critical difference today is that cyber attacks can be initiated by individuals sitting behind a computer thousands of miles away from the victim, making the scope and scale of what is happening unprecedented and the ability to . . .

As cyber attacks continue to escalate, John Lyons, CEO of the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance, tells Robert de la Poer how international co-operation is key to combating the threat to critical systems